Love it, Hal.
At first I thought it might be about the Viking Press, but soon
realized it went much further than that... (where did you find some of
those lines?)
Doug
On 10-Jan-06, at 7:53 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Vikings
>
> The press that stills strategy, done as well as humans
> can do. “Very” qualifies as an adverb, even here, even
> now. Incredible impact! That place anymore, the key
> phrase, I swear. The whole of the instant up to something
> different. The very next brush tempts fate, exactly.
>
>
> Some figurative ashes keep us occupied until the Jello is
> suddenly served. Building backwards, from the top down,
> as they say, serves us better if we can stop just short of
> the ground. Home things: heavy-lidded. Deep-storage rare.
> They were such a handsome family. Scene Two.
>
>
> Delicious raiders that they were, the Vikings pillaged
> excessively, but without destroying the chickens that
> laid, so to speak, their golden eggs. Private lists give
> the dates of their incursions, their swift strikes against
> unsuspecting, though not necessarily innocent, farmers.
>
>
> After all, he is from Barcelona. I find that extraordinary.
> High-pressure paragraphs floated in the blue, near vertical
> evening. The festivities ended abruptly amid calamities
> and mild indifferences. Grandma is useless because there’s
> nothing to say. If I say I am reading, I am reading and that
>
>
> is that. To speak bluntly, I found him overly deferential.
> Walking the footpaths along the cliffs, waiting for the fog
> to roll in, lift, roll in again. Crows in the far field. Crows
> in the near field. Autumn driving down the road in her
> shiny new limosine. Do translate this, word for word.
>
>
> Nuts and bolts, I’d like to explain them, but dare not.
> About thirty, she thought. O, her raddled memory.
> Doors, fumes, sky. Which of us hasn’t dreamt of a Goo-
> Gone of the spirit? A strategic one of benign neglect.
>
>
>
>
> Halvard Johnson
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